Get a cw decoder and I’ll smoke ya. lol
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I deleted my other posts that seemed to be getting ignored. Sorry no more radio shacks around me and I can’t even buy a trunking scanner since I zeroed out one credit card. I can’t really mention all the past radios I sat at, carried around, or currently use.
But I would like to finish with my bugs.
Everyone knows about warnings about rf and cell phone use, so they are influential to the body and brain, it would make sense that somebody would be able to detect them or be influenced by them with absolutely zero tech or electrical equipment and not even any metal fillings. These shield bugs or type of stink bug (not the beetle) have an odd shape that it seen in today’s stealth aircraft to avoid the most sophisticated electronic detection equipment, yet they have had this shape for millenia. Why?
Now I don’t like to use poison for any rodents and prefer to use traps as it would be a shame if a domestic cat ate the poisoned mice or other and got sick. Same thing with any birds, but birds did not seem to be eating these and they were quite plentiful. Now I thought at first some isopropyl alcohol might work like it did on bed bugs (and bed bugs seem to communicate with rf too). Alcohol sprayed on a bed bug will cause to rear it’s rostrum up at 90 degrees and it just dies in seconds from some type of pressure buildup. Not so with these. These are basically immune to alcohol. Meaning you could put them in pure methy or iso propyl alcohol and it will have no effect. Spraying massive amounts on them was just like a light rain.
I did use some posion and it took a massive amount like ordering a tom kha coconut soup for just a few and it took over a day, there is no instant death regardless of amount.
I have not seen a single shield bug of that type for months and now for the first time I see honey bees visiting the flowers. Oddly there were no bees ever before when the shield bugs occupied the tree.
I wonder if this is being faked. The story reads that a mysterious radio signal from space is being repeated every 16 days.
It is supposedly an FRB of which you and will can’t simply produce or probably pickup unless it was specifically aimed at you.
I think I decoded the message though without using any available technology on hobby shops or on the internet. The message is : reggie jiggly fat pig peggie lol.
lol i highly doubt thats the message but thats an interesting article, thanks for sharing;)
They don’t address any violations these days. People jam and operate without licenses and generally act like idiots and they do nothing. I’m going to try to post some stuff about encrypted modes tomorrow.
My father always scolded me harshly and gave me severe warning to never talk over the ham. He did teach me how to use a walkie talkie as a child and morse code, but this was about actual cured ham. I don’t know how far you go back with radio experience or what was passed down to you. Maybe you could even do something with a potato and a corned beef can with key.
So here’s a summary of what little I know about digital modes and encryption.
First, there’s generally no encryption on HF because HF is meant for long distances, not specific point-to-point communications. You throw a message out there and see who hears it. Your goal is to get messages to the outside world and receive messages from the outside world, circumventing all tradtional communications. These comms are largely untraceable if a person fails or refuses to identify with a call sign. The hottest digital mode on HF these days is FT8. I have no personal experience with it but fully intend to get into it when we’re back in Canada.
On UHF/VHF, the hottest digital mode by far is DMR. This does come with the option to encrypt because UHF/VHF are relatively short-range transmissions and often involve a person specifically calling another person. If two people want to communicate under the radar, they can buy a cheap DMR pair of radios, set a matching encryption string on both, and the transmission will be totally unintelligible to anyone casually listening and will even be very hard to decipher if a government throws all its resources against it. The thing with encryption is that it’s only useful if you have a specific person or group of people you need to communicate with privately. If you just want to communicate with anyone in case of an emergency or if the net gets shut down, then you can’t encrypt obviously. The guy at the other end won’t have your key.
Also with DMR is the ability to communicate on ham radio over the internet because many DMR repeaters are hooked into internet based networks. This is almost all voice. You can call into any DMR repeater and join a “talk group” which could have participants from all over the world, each connected to a local repeater which in turn is connected to the others over the internet. If it ever hits the fan, one could use that mechanism to talk anonymously around the world, although again it would require faking a call sign and DMR ID to be truly anonymous.
I’m very interested in setting up comms for a SHTF scenario. To me, that scenario is just as likely because government shuts down the internet as for any other reason such as a disaster. This means that anonymous comms has to be an option, even though in normal situations I always identify correctly.
My current thinking is that I sould focus on HF but DMR is definitely a nice alternative as well. There’s only so much time in the day, however, and I plan on acquiring and installing an HF radio when I’m back in Canada. Perhaps a Yaesu FT-991a. I like it because it also does UHF/VHF (although not DMR). It also does Yaesu’s digital mode which is called Fusion or C4FM, although that’s less popular than DMR.
Of the DMR radios out there, Anytone has emerged as the leader. TYT is way up there as well but Anytone really does appear to be the best. They have a matching handheld/mobile combination that is extremely appealing. None of the big Japanese three (Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood) are doing DMR.
Interesting stuff. I am staying with HF so as to reach as far a I need to. What do you have in mind for an antenna if you go hf? I have a Cushcraft R-5 vertical that I have worked the world with but can’t work 40 meters which would like for after dark. Maybe just a random longwire. Would be pirate.
This is a great question and one that I’ve agonized over. I live in a concrete apartment building. Even a random wire is out of the question. There’s also a net on 80m that I want to participate in.
I’m thinking I have to stick to a mobile HF antenna and count on a good tuner to not blow my finals. Something like this Diamond SD330 on the balcony. I know it’s not as good as a normal antenna but those aren’t options for me and this should get me some results, or so I’m hoping.
I’m willing to work with you with the effects of radio ventrilloquism and selective hearing and taking more than one’s turn and the effects of non responders and “radio silence” inthe dire times. You are going to have to scale it way back with me for it to work. Otherwise you can plug those accessories into your eye sockets.
Icom is releasing this very interesting all modes radio. It uses the same battery as their handheld, too. HF, 6 meter, VHF and UHF. $1400 list, which is irritating. No tuner, either, which is even more irritating. Still, it is probably the best prepper radio out there.
Yeah, $1400 is beyond irritating. Here is my option -
https://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-9120B
Work the world on 20 meters and keep out the riffraff with cw, lol.
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Just 20m? CW only is already very limiting. CW/20m is even more so.
20 meters is very good DX and a popular band. I enjoy using cw because the people put in the time and effort to learn it and get halfway decent speed. For exchanging info it’s as good as any and less threat of a pirate being caught (if someone were to do that).
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All very good reasons. If I was going to buy a single band CW radio, 20 m would be the obvious choice. The price is also right, especially including a tuner, a power supply and an antenna.
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A good pack and go outfit. I do like the modern radios but the cost is a turnoff.